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GUN STOCK ATTACHMENT.

APmc/moN FILED ri. 1. 191s.

1,307,529# Patented June 24, 191).

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viiiviian sTA'rEs APATENT oiirioii.

JOSEPH WERNDL, 0F COFFEYVILLE, KANSAS.

GUN-STOCK ATTACHMENT.

Tol all whom tl/mag] concern Be it knownthat I, JOSEPH VERNDL, a subject of Germany, (who has taken out his first papers as a, citizen of the United States,) residing` at Coffeyville, in the county of Montgomery and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Im- Y provementsin Gun-Stock Attachments, of

which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to ire arms, and more especially to stocks which are cushioned; and the object of the same is to provide -a cushion at the rear end of the ordinary gun stock such as a fowling piece or a rifle whereby the kick of the gun will be taken up before it reaches the shoulder of the marksman.

specification and claim. Attention is invited 'to the drawings wherein- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a gun stock provided with my improvement,

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section thereof i on an enlarged scale, and

Fig. 3 is a cross section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

The gun stock S is usually of wood. Instead of cutting out its rear end, L prefer to Vcut the same o at substantially right angles indicated at 1.

and provide it with a surrounding rabbet At lthe rear extremity, I bore or otherwise form a considerable cavity 2 and in the bottom of the cavity a plurality of sockets indicated at 3 and shown herein as two in number. A vent opening ileads from theV cavity through one side of the stock ,for a purposeyet to appear. Fixed across .the rear end of the stock is what yI will call the butt plate 5 which has perforations 6 opening into the cavity 2 and which is preferably provided with a surrounding flange 7 through which pass screws or other fastening devices 8 for holding this plate in place. By preference the plate carries a frame indicated at 9, which is made of strap metal and lits within the walls of the cavity so as to'aord a lining therefor Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 24, 1919, Application med February 7, 1919.

Serial No. 275,560.

when the parts are assembled as yet to be described.

A movable shoulder plate 15 overlies the fixed butt plate 5 and is also by preference provided with a flange 17 somewhat wider than that of the other ,plate and adapted to overlie it slightly as seen in Fig. 2. In fact, this flange is so wide as to produce a considerable pocket between the plates in which air may trap, and therefore the perforations 6 and the vent 4: are provided to perinit the escape of this air when the plates approach each other as described below. Projecting rigidly from the inner side of the movable plate l5 is a pair of plungers 10 passing through lholes 11 in the fixed butt plate, then throughout the length of the frame 9 and through holes 13 inthe front end of the latter, and extending into the sockets 3 as seen; and surrounding these plungers within the frame are expansive coiled springs 14 whose inner ends rest against the front end of the frame and whose outer ends bear against washers 17 which latter in turn are held by pins 18 through the plungers just inside the ixed plate 5. for limiting the movement of the springs and also as stops for limiting the outward movement of the plungers which would otherwise draw out of their holes `N1l in the butt plate.

The parts when assembled stand as seen in Figs. 1 and 2. When now the marksman places the shoulder plate 15 against his shoulder and fires the gun, the rebound causes the stock S to move quickly toward his shoulder. This carries with it the frame 9 which is rigidly attached to the butt plate 5, and the front end of this frame bears on the front ends of the springs14 so that the latter are compressed against the relatively fxed washers and pins. Meanwhile the outer flange 17 slides over the inner flange 7 and into the, rabbet 1 as far as necessary, and the cl-ose fit of the flanges upon each other prevent the entrance of extraneous matter into the space between them and therefore into the space between the two plates. The entire 'attachment is neat in appearance and simple in construction and adds little if any weight tothe gun stock.

The foregoing description and the drawings have reference to what may be considered the preferred, or approved form of cavity'and a rabbet around its rearmost .po-r-V tion; of a butt plate secured to the rear end Y my invention. It is to be Vunderstood thaty I may make such changes in construction and arrangement and combination of parts,

materia-ls, dimensionsfet cetera,Y as mayV its body at the bottom of the cavity',v the*- stock having an air vent opening into said of the stock rand Vhaving perforations opening into said `cavity, a frame carried by this plate and fittlng'the cavity, the front end of the frame holeszopposite said-*sockets VVand the plate having holes -alining therewith,'

a shoulder plate having'a lange slidably mounted over the fixed plate and movable into said rabbet, a pair of plnngers projecting V:from this plate through the holes in the fixed plate and the holes in the frame into said sockets, pins through these'plungers,

washersnext the pins,Y and expansive springsv coiled on the plungers between the washers and the inner end of therframe.-

In testimony whereof I affix my signature Tin-presence of two witnesses. Y a

Y Y I JOSEPH wnimnnV Witnesses: i Y A A. S. NEWMAN, D. M. CAHILL.

Copies of this ypatent may be obtained for five. cents each, by addressing the Commissioner offlatrents',

Washington, D. C.

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